The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-06-30

he has been living for year or more. |
Mr.. John G.. Whittier expects to spend
a part of the summer at his usual re-
sort at Asquam Lake, Holderness, n.
H.; DR.. Weir Mitchell will go a-fish
ing in Canada Mary Mapes Dodge
will continue to edit 81. Nicholas from
Bay Shore, l.. l.; Mr.. Thomas B.
Aldrich will perform the same service
for the atlantic from his home at
Lynn Terrace, on the New England
coast, and George William Curtis will
transfer his Easy Chair" Com New
Brighton to Ashfield, Mass, during the
heated term, and continue his work
on Hvprr's Weekly from that point.
Gen. Lew Wallace will probably "sum-
mer" in the mountains of New York,
s.plan" sufficiently indefinite to battle
would-Ee correspondents. Mrs. Celia
Thaxter will be found, as usual, at APP
pledore, Isle of Shoals, and DR.. O. W.
| Holmes will seek rest and recreation
at Beverly Farms, Mass.
BENJAMIN & Bell make their aebM
as publishers by issuing literary curl
osity, satire, entitled "The Poets
and Poetry of America" 1t IS a neat
pamphlet, and contains matter that
was first published in 1947 in Philadel-
phia by VIM. S. Young, who did busi-
ness at 173 Race street. The editor,
who conceals his identity under the
name of Geofrey Quarles, has written
an ingenious Introductory argument
to prove that the author who originally
signed himself "Lavante" was Edgar
Allen Poe. They announce for imme-
date publication a volume of "Society
Verse by American Writer'S" selected
by Ernest De Lancey Pierson, which
will include about eighty poems, some
by such well-known authors as Bunner,
Aldrich, Helen Gray Cone, and others,
and some by contributors who will APP
pear for the first time in this volume.
The book will be daintily printed by
the Devinne Press. Another interesting
announcement they make is a novel by
Edgar Saltus, to be Untitled ''Mr. In
coul's Misadventure." The author has
made quite an enviable reputation by
his studies of pessimlsm-"Ihe An
atomy of Negation" and "ihe Phi
losophy of Disenchantment ''-as we'll
as by his study Of :: Balzac," etc. His
forthcoming work is said to be written
in pessimistiC vein and to be exceed
ingly clever. A new volume by APP
pleton Morgan is to be issued by this
; firm under the title of Shakespeare
, in Fact and Fiction And, finally,
f they announce that they have secured
the American market for the fourth
edition of " The Book Lovers Enchl-
! ridion," by Alex. Ireland.
Mr.. George kennan has an enter
tanning account in the July Century OF
visit to Count Tolstoi, the Russian
!, novelist and reformer. He found the
author at home on his estate at Alyasna
: Polyana, near Kiel. The Count
/ though a wealthy land owner and in
receipt of large income from his
y writings, lives in the plainest possible
Y style in a house which in America
; would be thought poor enough for {
9 fourth-Class tenement. The interior
,, is represented as devoid of ornament
with the exception of two or three
J: cheap pictures, and the Counts Ii
:. brary is said to be a bare, cherries
Y room, with only few books on th'
o shelves. The count received Mr.. Ken
S nan in his shirt sleeves, which with hi
s other garments was of coarse homt
: manufacture. He had just been ou
: helping a neighbor, poor widow, tt
! prepare a field for a crop, and par
of the time during Mr.. Remnants vlsl
D was spent by Tolstoi ins making shoes
(. All this, it should be said, is in &C
f cordance with the Counts peCulia
!. doctrines in regard to man S social du
] ties as enunciated in his book, an
,fl Religion" and in his numerous pam
2. phlets. The Count teaches that ever
h man, no matter what his calling @
o station, should spend portion of hi
time at manual labor; that every on
should practice to the utmost limit tn
virtues of self-denial, charity and hu
Il maneness. He holds firmly to tn
,e doctrine of non resistance, believln
sr that no provocation can justify resol
l. to violence He is thus opposed t
b war, capital punishment, and ever
E means of redressing wrongs by phys
,e ical force. In his life at. Polyan
II Count Tolstoi is trying as far as pos
D. sib!e to carry these teachings int
+ effect. Mr.. kennan found the Cour
N genial host and apparently contente
le and happy in his home and tamll,
ar He is said to hold his own novels
J. very light estimation, as of no partit
at ular use to the world, but is very s.
in licitous as to the spread of his writing
$ on social and religious topics.
,e Mr.. Thomas Scharf has just brougl
)" out through his publishers, Rogers
es Sherwood, (2I-23 Barklay street, !
tn Y very valuable work, "Ehe Hi
in tory of the Confederate States Navy,
R. which no doubt will prove an honc
Sc to American literature. This is II
=; first attempt to place on record Il